Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1732
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Keith Ferguson works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Keith Ferguson appears in 22 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Keith. Inside Out is the clearest case: a film rated 8.1 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, screen presence. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for science fiction, comedy, animation. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Eric Fogel, Jeff Wamester, Peter Browngardt and others, Keith Ferguson helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Inside Out (2015) as Additional Voices (voice) · Once Upon a Studio (2023) as Prince Charming (voice) · The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) as Chewy (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1732 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
22
2006–2024
Career length
18 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.1
Inside Out
Average Nutevio score
6.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Once Upon a Studio
Most frequent director
Jeff Wamester
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Jeff Wamester
Most common genre
Animation
22 titles
Average runtime
1h 16m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.6
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
6.9 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
6.9
Across 11 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
7.0
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Ultimate Avengers: The Movie.
Most productive era
2020s
11 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | 7.72 films | 7.71 film |
| Action | 6.91 film | 7.14 films | 6.86 films |
| Thriller | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Comedy | — | 6.78 films | 6.76 films |
| Crime | — | 7.32 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2006Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Additional Voices (voice).
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2015Inside Out
8.1 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2024Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two
The current state of the argument, as Doctor Fate / Atomic Knight (voice).
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
22 of 22 films
as Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Pete Docter
as Prince Charming (voice)
Directed by Dan Abraham
as Chewy (voice)
Directed by Peter Browngardt
as Officer Murphy / Additional Voices (voice)
Directed by Daniel Chong
as Han Solo (voice)
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Additional Voices (voice)
Inside Out (2015)
Performance score7.8
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Additional Voices (voice) gives Keith Ferguson a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Prince Charming (voice)
Once Upon a Studio (2023)
Performance score7.5
Once Upon a Studio asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Prince Charming (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chewy (voice)
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)
Performance score7.4
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chewy (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Officer Murphy / Additional Voices (voice)
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
Performance score7.3
We Bare Bears: The Movie asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Officer Murphy / Additional Voices (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Additional Voices (voice)
Start here. Inside Out is the clearest statement of what Keith Ferguson does — accessible, 95 minutes, and rated 8.1 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Keith at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III (2010)
Keeps the comedy register of Inside Out but asks for a colder reading of it.
We Bare Bears: The Movie (2020)
Keeps the comedy register of The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III but asks for a colder reading of it.
Once Upon a Studio (2023)
Keeps the comedy register of We Bare Bears: The Movie but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)
Keeps the comedy register of Once Upon a Studio but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Jeff Wamester
Director
3 films together
Notably Justice Society: World War II
Steven E. Gordon
Director
1 film together
Notably Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
Lauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman: Year One
Phil Lord
Director
1 film together
Notably The Lego Movie
Kyle Balda
Director
1 film together
Notably Minions
Pete Docter
Director
1 film together
Notably Inside Out
Bruce Timm
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock
Jake Castorena
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Brandon Vietti
Director
1 film together
Notably DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
Daniel Chong
Director
1 film together
Notably We Bare Bears: The Movie
Katie Rice
Director
1 film together
Notably Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the Multiverse
Mike Roth
Director
1 film together
Notably Merry Little Batman
Dan Abraham
Director
1 film together
Notably Once Upon a Studio
Peter Browngardt
Director
1 film together
Notably The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
Eric Fogel
Director
1 film together
Notably Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Jeff Wamester
Director
3 films together · 7.1 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Justice Society: World War IIPete Docter
Director
1 film together · 8.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Inside OutDan Abraham
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Once Upon a StudioPeter Browngardt
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes MovieDaniel Chong
Director
1 film together · 7.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
We Bare Bears: The MoviePhil Lord
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Lego MovieLauren Montgomery
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman: Year OneJake Castorena
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesBrandon Vietti
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the FamilySteven E. Gordon
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ultimate Avengers: The MovieMike Roth
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Merry Little BatmanBruce Timm
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DC Showcase: Sgt. RockKyle Balda
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
MinionsKatie Rice
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Teen Titans Go! & DC Super Hero Girls: Mayhem in the MultiverseEric Fogel
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Megamind vs. the Doom SyndicateSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Keith Ferguson has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Animation Legend
Awarded
22 catalogue titles in animation, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Once Upon a Studio
as Prince Charming (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman: Year One
as Jefferson Skeevers (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Once Upon a Studio
as Prince Charming (voice)
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Once Upon a Studio
as Prince Charming (voice)
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
as Han Solo (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
as Baxter Stockman / Two-Face (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Inside Out
as Additional Voices (voice)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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